stepchild

[ step-chahyld ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, plural step·child·ren.

a child of one's spouse by a previous marriage.
any person, organization, affiliate, project, etc., that is not properly treated, supported, or appreciated:
This agency is the stepchild when appropriations are handed out.

stepchild

/ ˈstɛpˌtʃaɪld /

before 1000; Middle English; Old English stēopcild. See step-, child

However, it’s not always the case, and many stepchildren have strong relationships with their stepparents.

As the adult — and, in the eyes of many stepchildren, the parent-come-lately — you should contact him.

They treat the dogs like the lefthanded stepchild and put them in a the back room and left them there.

Klout is more or less the forgotten stepchild of the social media bunch, but it was a start.

Being a stepchild, she noted, set her as an outsider within a family, and gave her a yearning to conform.

Well, all the time you and me was in Marcellus's settin'-room that stepchild of his just set and looked at my head.

Grandson of his State, and stepchild to Elmville—thus had fate fixed his kinship to the body politic.

So, for the first time in their lives, met the child and the stepchild of Louise Duval.

But the mother and the stepchild (now restored to the sick-room) did not desert their watch.

She not only despised but hated her stepchild from the moment that she saw her.

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